Lindsey Grahamnesty Strikes Again w/ Plan to Rubber-Stamp 2M Illegals

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Lindsey Grahamnesty Strikes Again w/ Plan to Rubber-Stamp 2M Illegals

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Establishment star RINO Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., returned to his old ways last week by proposing a bill giving amnesty to 2 million illegal aliens.

Graham has teamed up with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., to sponsor their “Dream Act,” according to Breitbart News.

The bill is a supplementary action for DACA, Barack Obama’s executive fiat. The illegal immigrants who benefit from that executive order, according to Graham, are viewed more sympathetically by the American people.

“The Dreamers represent a class of illegal immigrants that have much public support because they were minors brought here by their parents and America has become their home,” Graham said, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Graham and Durbin’s proposal “would allow noncitizens without lawful status who were brought to the United States as children and meet certain [minimal] education or work requirements to earn lawful permanent residence.”

These requirements are as light as:

  • Have a job for three years
  • Go to college for three years
  • Pass a background check
  • Pay an Application fee

Apparently, these characteristics make these illegals “American in every way except for their immigration status.”

Graham’s altruistic politics comes at a steep price. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated similar proposed amnesty bills would cost American taxpayers $26 billion. This same report estimated one in five DACA illegals would end up on food stamps while one in seven would be on Medicaid.

Indeed, in 2020 the CBO admitted that “immigration has exerted downward pressure on the wages of relatively low-skilled workers who are already in the country, regardless of their birthplace.”

The economic costs are rivaled by the social costs of illegal immigration, which includes:

Graham’s support for amnesty represents a disappointing regression to the mean. The late great Rush Limbaugh, in 2018 observed that “Since Senator McCain passed away, Senator Graham seems to have become a different guy on a lot of things.” Indeed, the great radio host noted that, “Senator Graham seems to have become a more reliable conservative.”

It didn’t last long.

Idris Elba Slams Hollywood’s Obsession w/ Skin Tone, Infuriates Race Hustlers

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Idris Elba Slams Hollywood’s Obsession w/ Skin Tone, Infuriates Race Hustlers

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Actor Idris Elba defended himself on Twitter after receiving backlash for making comments about how he no longer describes himself as a “black actor.”

“There isn’t a soul on this earth that can question whether I consider myself a BLACK MAN or not,” he said. “Being an ‘actor’ is a profession, like being an ‘architect,’ they are not defined by race. However, if YOU define your work by race, that is your prerogative. Ah lie?”

According to Fox News, the tweet closely follows some statements by Elba that lead many activists to believe he was disowning his race.

“If we spent half the time not talking about the differences but the similarities between us, the entire planet would have a shift in the way we deal with each other,” Elba said in an interview. “As humans, we are obsessed with race. And that obsession can really hinder people’s aspirations, hinder people’s growth.”

Elba continued, adding that while he believes race is not a defining characteristic, he does believe racism is real.

“Racism is very real,” Elba said. “But, from my perspective, it’s only as powerful as you allow it to be. I stopped describing myself as a black actor when I realized it put me in a box. We’ve got to grow. We’ve got to. Our skin is no more than that. It’s just skin. Rant over.”

Elba also mentioned that he wanted to be an inspiration to black and white kids growing up in tough circumstances, and encourage them to work hard and give it a try.

“I might be the first to look like me to do a certain thing. And that’s good to leave as part of my legacy,” he said. “So that other people, black kids, but also white kids growing up in the circumstances I grew up in, are able to see there was a kid who came from Canning Town who ended up doing what I do. It can be done.”

Several woke Twitter activists insisted that Elba’s philosophy on the matter is patently false, and he cannot separate himself from his blackness and he has shamed the black community.

 

NFL Darling Damar Hamlin Called Out for Blasphemous Super Bowl Jacket

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NFL Darling Damar Hamlin Called Out for Blasphemous Super Bowl Jacket

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Former NFL player Adrian Peterson slammed the League’s darling, Damar Hamlin, for wearing a blasphemous letterman’s jacket during the Super Bowl, the New York Post reported.

Hamlin, who was not playing in the game, sat next to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, presumably being honored for suffering from cardiac arrest during a game earlier this season.

He wore a letterman’s jacket which read: “Without the end or beginning there is no day and there is no night,” and on the back depicted a very vulgar form of Christ on the cross, captioned by the word “eternal.”

Peterson initially called out Hamlin on Instagram.

“You should be thanking God son!” he wrote. “This is Blasphemy!! We all fall short but cmon man! I find this disrespectful!!”

After the initial post, Peterson reportedly followed up with Hamlin, confronting him about the disrespectful depiction of Christ but ultimately apologizing for passing judgment.

“So I spoke with [Damar], and we were able to discuss our thoughts as men,” Peterson wrote. “I want to be clear, I’m the last person to judge anyone, and that was never my intention.”

Nonetheless, Peterson mentioned that he still finds the jacket “disrespectful,” noting that “everyone makes mistakes and falls short at times.”

Hamlin, despite wearing a questionable jacket to the game, did speak about his faith in the aftermath of his on-field collapse, noting that he was grateful for “God’s guidance.”

The Hamlin story has made headlines despite several other players actually playing in the game being genuine Christians.

Notably, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker–who made the game-winning kick–is an outspoken Catholic, who wears a scapular while playing.

Of course, by the standards of Biden regime, Butker–a traditionalist Catholic–is a suspected domestic terrorist.

“I felt like I wasn’t able to embrace it until I saw it completely exposed in the light. I knew that I had discovered authentic Catholicism,” Butker said in a 2022 interview, wherein he described his discovery of the faith.

“And I found that at the Traditional Latin Mass, in the traditional sacraments, and I think a lot of young people have found that as well.”

Biden to Sell 26M More Barrels of Emergency Oil

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Biden to Sell 26M More Barrels of Emergency Oil

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In a yet another baffling decision, President Joe Biden and his administration have decided once more to empty out America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to score political points, Fox News reported.

The administration plans to release 27 million barrels of oil into the market between the beginning of April and the end of June, bringing the SPR to its lowest levels in 40 years.

According to Phil Flynn, an analyst at the Price Futures Group, Biden and company are attempting to make sure that there is no spike in gas prices during the summer.

“Biden is front-loading SPR barrels to avoid a summer gasoline price spike,” he said.

“There are growing concerns among the Biden administration that gas prices are headed back to $4 a gallon and the president is fearful of the political heat he will have to take.”

The announcement came amidst news out of Russia that the oil giant would massively curtail production in protest of western economic sanctions.

Flynn also noted that Biden’s decision to use emergency reserves in a non-emergency will have the double-effect of also discouraging domestic oil production and national self-sufficiency.

“By pushing barrels forward from previously announced sales he is robbing Peter to pay Paul but is discouraging future U.S. oil and gas investment,” he noted.

“There should be some backlash from Republicans who are getting tired of using the SPR for political purposes and creating short-term price relief in exchange for much higher prices down the road.”

This instance will of course be far from the first time that the Biden administration has jeopardized national security for the sake of high approval ratings.

Leading up to the 2022 midterms, the administration delved into the SPR in order to lower the astronomical gas prices that were caused largely by Democrat policies.

The SPR currently stands at 371 million barrels. After the release, it will drop to 345 million barrels.

Hunter Biden Sought Job for Wuhan Scientist Studying Herpes

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Hunter Biden Sought Job for Wuhan Scientist Studying Herpes

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recent report revealed that Hunter Biden has a business relationship with a scientist from a Wuhan lab who specializes in researching sexually transmitted diseases.

Partnering with Eric Schwerin, Biden made millions negotiating international business deals despite their lack of expertise.

According to the Daily Wire, the partners met Hongtu Liu, a scientist at China’s Center for Disease Control.

Liu has authored several studies on STDs, particularly herpes, but involved themselves in American research studying RNA and cancer.

Liu’s research on STDs is likely one of the reasons he was befriended by the younger Biden, whose laptop revealed several payments to and meetings with prostitutes. A text exchange between Hunter’s sister-in-law and girlfriend Hallie Biden and her sister discussing a herpes medication known as Valtrex.

Liu’s wife, Xiaoying G. Zeng, works with Hunter and is one of his main liaisons in the Chinese business world, particularly into the biotech industry.

In 2010, Zeng set up a meeting between Schwerin and influential business man Dr. Tiani Wang, who founded China’s State Guest Entrepreneurs Club and president of the China International Industry and Commerce Co.

Several emails between Zang, Schwerin and Biden show a pattern of sleazy, backhanded business tactics.

“One thing you both have to do when you are in China is see Xiaoying,” Schwerin wrote to Hunter Biden and Devon Archer after his 2010 meeting, another business partner who last year was sentenced to prison for fraud.

“See if Hunter’s group can get me a meeting with the CHINESE CEO at MICROPORT during the upcoming NASS meeting in San Francisco Nov12th-14th,” one US biotech executive wrote to an associate in an email. “It has to be with the top dog.”

Schwerin forwarded the email to Hunter, discussing charges for setting up the meeting: “I may be able to see if Xiaoying can get to them and arrange but this is something we should charge for wouldn’t you think?”

Hunter and Schwerin’s firm, Rosemont Seneca, raised $28 million for a medical testing start up known as Counsyl, after it failed in the Chinese market. After the massive fundraiser, Schwerin used his influence with the company to get Liu on staff.

“If Counsyl is looking for someone there they may also want to consider Xiaoying’s husband,” he wrote. “According to Xiaoying he is starting a business that does online testing for HPV. Could be a great entree for Counsyl in China considering how connected he is working for the Chinese CDC.”

Alaska Conservatives Fight to Reclaim Democracy after Ranked-Choice Debacle

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Alaska Conservatives Fight to Reclaim Democracy after Ranked-Choice Debacle

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) After submitting to the trendy rank-choice voting system that creates a bias for establishment candidates, conservatives in the state of Alaska are fighting to try to retake their state, the Federalist reported.

The state moved to rank-choice in 2020, when a ballot proposition passed, backed by major out-of-state funding.

But now, after a disastrous midterm that left voters confused and secured several major establishment victories, conservatives have decided to fight back.

They have created an organization called “Alaskans for Honest Elections,” which was created specifically to rid the state of rank choice voting.

According to the AHE website, rank choice voting was forced onto the state by those from outside interested in manipulating the elections.

“Rank choice was sold to Alaska by outsiders as a means to control dark money. Outsiders put more of their money than ever before in our elections. It did not work! Most of their funding came from out of Alaska.”

The site also notes that, since the passage of the ballot prop which legitimized rank choice, voters have become demoralized, choosing to simply stay home.

“Rank Choice voting has proven to discourage voter turnout. This past election had the lowest turn out since 2010. It is so complicated that 1000’s did not vote. Some voters, votes are counted 2 or 3 times. Not fair!”

The system likely altered several key outcomes in the state.

First, it hindered the Trump-backed Senatorial candidate Kelly Tshibaka in her race against RINO incumbent GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

But perhaps more importantly, Democrat Mary Peltola demonstrably defeated former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in the race for Alaska’s at-large congressional district as a result of ranked-choice voting.

Fortunately for Alaskans, the state congress is also moving to return to a normal voting system.

Sen. Mike Shower, who recently introduced SB 2, which would repeal rank choice voting, said that he truly believes that the people of Alaska do not desire RCV.

“This rhetoric you’re hearing from Alaskans for Better Elections, from certain legislators in Alaska, and others [shows they] are living in the dream world that they have created for themselves; that they want to believe that [RCV is] this glowing example and that the public supports it,” he said.

“I truly believe if Alaska held a vote tomorrow to repeal ranked-choice voting that it would pass.”

DOJ Doles Out $231M to Help States, D.C. Disarm Citizens

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DOJ Doles Out $231M to Help States, D.C. Disarm Citizens

(Headline USA) The Justice Department is sending out more than $200 million to help states and the District of Columbia administer “red-flag laws” and other crisis-intervention programs as part of the controversial gun legislation passed by Congress over the summer, officials said Tuesday.

Red-flag laws, also known as extreme risk protection orders, are intended to temporarily remove guns from people with potentially violent behavior and prevent them from hurting themselves or others. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have red-flag laws.

Although the nation’s capitol has some of the strictest gun laws, including a ban on allowing any guns to be taken outside the home, severe restrictions on what types of guns can be registered and limits on the amount of ammo in clips, it continues to be a hotbed of violent crime.

The same is true of blue states, such as California, whose draconian laws, often in conflict with the Second Amendment, have done little thus far to prevent a streak of recent mass shootings, oftentimes in places where people are at their most vulnerable, such as schools.

Efforts to disarm citizens have been exacerbated by those in many Democrat districts to defund or otherwise hamstring law enforcement, offering free rein to criminals who choose to disregard the rule of law only to be coddled by soft-on-crime judges and prosecutors.

Some of the $231 million in funding announced Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, will also go to crisis-intervention court proceedings and other gun-violence reduction programs—the same sort of programs that enabled convicted killer Nikolas Cruz to slip through the system undetected in a sea of bureaucratic and administrative red tape.

Red-flag laws have been touted by President Joe Biden and others as a powerful tool to stop gun violence before it happens. But an Associated Press analysis found they have had little impact as shootings and gun deaths soar around the U.S.

The nonbinary suspect in a mass shooting targeting an LGBT nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in November, for example, had allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb a year and a half earlier, but there’s no public record that police or relatives tried to trigger Colorado’s law.

The laws differ by state, but they generally allow people like family members or law enforcement to petition a court for an order removing weapons, for up to a year.

The Justice Department insists the program has checks in place to ensure due process.

The funding is part of the $1.4 billion from the legislation provided to the Justice Department over five years for so-called gun-violence prevention measures.

The legislation passed in June was the most extreme anti-gun bill in decades. It toughened requirements for young people who seek to buy guns, denied firearms for more domestic abusers and bolstered funding for mental health programs and schools.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the funding will “help protect children, families, and communities across the country from senseless acts of gun violence.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Joe Rogan Says the White House Changed His Mind on U.S. Downing UFOs

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Joe Rogan Says the White House Changed His Mind on U.S. Downing UFOs

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) After conflicting reports from different factions of the Biden administration trying to explain the rash of allegedly unidentified objects being shot out America’s skies, it was the White House’s insurrectionist press secretary who gave podcasting superstar Joe Rogan reason to think that extraterrestrial forces were in play.

In the wake of the China spy balloon fiasco, three other unidentified objects have been shot down by the U.S. military over Alaska, Canada and Lake Huron in recent days.

General Glen VanHerck, commander of U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, initially refused to rule out the possibility that the downed objects could have extraterrestrial origins.

“I haven’t ruled out anything,” VanHerck said when asked by a reporter if aliens could be involved, according to Time. “I’m not going to categorize them as balloons. We’re calling them objects for a reason. I’m not able to categorize how they stay aloft.”

That assessment flew in stark contrast to reassurances that the White House press secretary floated during a Monday press briefing, when she made a blanket denial that UFOs were the objects of military targeting.

“I just wanted to make sure we address this from the White House,” Karine Jean-Pierre said.

“I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no, again no, indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. I loved E.T. the movie, but I’m just going to leave it there.

Jean-Pierre’s pronouncement put Rogan’s renowned alien antenna on high alert.

“Now all of a sudden I think it actually is aliens,” Rogan cracked on Instagram.

Follow-up during Monday’s press briefing from White House national security council spokesman John Kirby likely didn’t provide Rogan any reassurance.

“I don’t think the American people need to worry about aliens with respect to these craft. Period,” Kirby told reporters, but still wasn’t able to bring any clarity to the origin of the objects. “I don’t think there’s any more that needs to be said.”

3 People Killed at Michigan State University; Gunman Dead

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3 People Killed at Michigan State University; Gunman Dead

(Headline USA) A gunman opened fire Monday night at Michigan State University, killing three people and wounding five more, before fatally shooting himself miles away after an hours-long manhunt that forced frightened students to hide in the dark.

Police announced the man’s death early Tuesday, four hours after shootings broke out at Berkey Hall, an academic building, and later nearby at the MSU Union, a popular hub to eat or study.

“This truly has been a nightmare we’re living tonight,” said Chris Rozman, interim deputy chief of the campus police department.

Hundreds of officers had scoured the East Lansing campus, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit, for the suspect, whom police described as a short black man with red shoes, a jean jacket and a ball cap.

The 43-year-old man was confronted by police off campus before killing himself with a “self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Rozman said.

His name was not immediately released, nor any details about the gun or what police found at the scene. Rozman said the man was not a student or employee and had no affiliation with Michigan State.

“We have no idea why he came to campus to do this tonight. That is part of our ongoing investigation,” the deputy chief said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Buttigieg’s Race-Baiting Response to Train Derailments, Toxic Explosions Sparks Backlash

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Buttigieg’s Race-Baiting Response to Train Derailments, Toxic Explosions Sparks Backlash

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) A massive explosion that erupted from a train derailment in Ohio has been compared to America’s potential Chernobyl, but has received scant attention from the Biden administration and its mainstream media collaborators.

Two subsequent and similar train derailments in different parts of the country on Monday accelerated concerns about the Biden regime’s lack of response, with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg being roasted for his fixation, instead, on alleged racial inequities plaguing the transportation industry.

A so-called controlled release-and-burn of toxic chemicals from freight cars involved in a huge Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3 spewed a nuclear-like explosion cloud over a vast expanse of the state and neighboring Pennsylvania, leading Ohio Gov. Mike Dewine to issue an evacuation from the town and surrounding areas.

Suspicions were further fueled when a NewsNation reporter was hauled away in handcuffs for trying to report on DeWine’s new conference, a development that the governor called “shocking”.

“I got arrested because I was doing a live report about what people need to know!” said Evan Lambert.

“I would have told them to stop, because he has every right to be broadcasting, every right to be reporting,” DeWine told NewsNation.

The derailed train cars released a toxic mix of fumes into the air, ground and water, including the carcinogen vinyl chloride and myriad highly flammable and combustible chemicals, according to a list provided by the EPA. Buttigieg waited more than a week before publicly commenting on the disaster, and then it was only to assure residents that the Biden EPA was on the case.

Buttigieg’s assurances drew responses similar to a proposal floated by Norfolk Southern, after officials offered to have their representatives test homes in the area for fallout. Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist, told MSNBC that was “like the fox guarding your henhouse.”

“We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open,” he said.

The alarm was shared by Ron Kaminkow, an Amtrak locomotive engineer and former Norfolk Southern freight engineer, according to The Guardian.

“The Palestine wreck is the tip of the iceberg and a red flag,” said Kaminkow, who is secretary for the Railroad Workers United. “If something is not done, then it’s going to get worse, and the next derailment could be cataclysmic.”

During a National Association of Counties conference on Monday, Buttigieg was laser focused on supposed racial inequalities plaguing the transportation industry.

Lawmakers ripped the Biden administration’s floundering response to the disasters, calling for accountability and answers from the transportation secretary.

Two other train derailments in South Carolina and Texas that were reported Monday did little to ease angst, fueling more calls for answers.

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